We read the UK public registers and publish what they say together. Most of what is here is already public one record at a time; what is hard is counting it, and counting it is the part newsrooms end up doing themselves at deadline.
Every figure below is fetched as this page loads, not typed into it, and every one names the endpoint it came from. Quote them, check them, and come back in six months and get the same answer.
overseas entities own UK land and have named no beneficial owner
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 exists to produce this number, and nobody publishes it, because it needs two registers read together: the entities, and the people with significant control filed against each. An absence is not proof of a breach — some entities have no registrable owner to declare — but it is where the questions start.
See the list /v1/uk/overseas?disclosed=false
charities have been removed from the register of England and Wales
The Charity Commission publishes the removed alongside the registered, and shows mostly the registered. A charity wound up in 2019 does not take its letterheads back, and an appeal quoting that number today depends on nobody checking.
See the list /v1/uk/charities?status=removed
care services in England are rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission
Searchable one location at a time on the Commission’s own site. Here it is a list, with the company behind each provider where the name matches the register exactly — which is how a chain’s worst rating becomes visible from its company page.
See the list /v1/uk/care?rating=Inadequate
is the median gender pay gap reported for 2025
The median of every employer’s median, not the mean — one outlier cannot move it. Nine reporting years are held, so the question a single year cannot answer, whether an employer is closing its gap, has an answer here.
See the list /v1/uk/pay-gap
employers filed their 2025 pay gap report after the deadline
Published in the data and rarely reported. The deadline is a legal duty, and who missed it is a matter of record rather than of interpretation.
See the list /v1/uk/pay-gap
companies are on the Companies House register
The denominator for almost every other figure here, and the one most often quoted from a press release rather than counted.
See the list /v1/stats
awarded public contracts are held, searchable by the company that was paid
Contracts Finder publishes notices; nobody publishes suppliers. "How much has this company been paid from public money" therefore has no answer on the service itself. Framework ceilings are counted separately rather than summed — a two-billion-pound framework names a dozen firms, and adding those rows up would report twenty billion.
See the list /v1/uk/contracts
Almost every number worth reporting from these registers is a count of what somebody filed, not a count of what is true. Companies House registers what a company tells it and, until identity verification is fully in force, does not check it. The charity register records what trustees filed. A pay gap is what an employer calculated about itself. That does not make the figures soft — filings are the legal record — but it changes what a figure can support.
An absence is the most misread thing in public data, and several of the strongest stories here are absences. An overseas entity that has named no beneficial owner may have none to name. A care home with no rating has not been inspected yet, which is not the same as failing. We publish absences because they are where the questions are, and we label them because the label is what makes them usable.
Where two registers had to be joined without a shared key — a food premises to the company that runs it, a supplier to the firm that was paid — we say how the link was made and how confident it is. Some links we deliberately do not make: a framework contract worth two billion pounds names a dozen suppliers, and reporting that as two billion awarded to one of them would be wrong in a way nobody would catch.
If you need the working, ask. Every figure has a query behind it, and we would rather show it than have it taken on trust.
